How to Piece a Bears Claw Quilt Block

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

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  1. Laurie Benzie says:

    I finally finished piecing my 2 “Bear’s Paw” (I’ve never seen a bear with 8 claws per paw, LOL) block last night. Not sure why I had so much trouble with this block, it seemed simple enough but I ripped several times and ended up with some odd looking border triangles as I could not get it to line up properly! Not ripping any more! Going to quilt them and love the imperfections or design elements as I call them. Looking forward to the next block and hopefully it will not give me any grief, LOL. I do have a question, is there any reason why we shouldn’t start connecting some blocks? I’m making a king and have blocks completed for 2 of my rows.

    • LeahDay says:

      LOL! I didn’t even think about making it realistic. I just went a bit crazy with the HSTs! I’m so sorry you struggled with this one. The sizing was a bit weird and I tried to make that clear in the pattern. Yes, less ripping and more fun quilting!

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